World Baseball Classic Great Britain Hat Logo Concept

[frogger6]

As a baseball fan who is half British, I was excited to see them in the WBC, but completely embarrassed by the state of their uniforms. Actually, a lot of the uniforms and logos in the WBC are pretty bad (more on that later). I decided to start with Great Britain's hat logo. 

Current on left and my design on the right

 

 

Edited March 15, 2023 by officeglenn
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[heavybass]

Might want to look into that again.

[frogger6]

I'm not sure what you mean by that

[heavybass]

The pictures weren't showing up.... now they have shown up.

[officeglenn]

I think he may have been talking about the image not embedding. For future reference, this is covered in the CCSLC FAQs:

 

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As for the concept itself, it's a clever idea but it doesn't quite work in its current iteration. The Union Jack in the "GB" is a nice idea, but makes the "GB" harder to read. The addition of gold only muddies things further. I think it would benefit from a blue background/border instead of gold and more space in between the G and the B. If you can make the internal spaces within the G and the B bigger, that would help too, but not so big as you lose the shield shape.

[frogger6]

officeglenn, 

thanks. ive posted here and included images before but i couldnt get it to work this time. Let me try again below with those instructions..

also, thanks for the feedback. here (hopefully) is the logo non-embroidered for better viewing...

i agree on the gold but there needed to be a color that wasnt red, white, or blue to outline the lettering IMO.

 

[officeglenn]

I think you could do something more tonal for the Union Jack, like Team GB did on their apparel at the 2012 Olympics. The Union Jack is a recognizable pattern in pretty much any color. Then you could use red as the outline color and not have to bring gold into the mix. I dunno, something to play around with if you want.

[OmegaRed]

I like the thinking behind what you are trying to do with the GB and the union jack. I just wonder if it gets a little complicated. If there was a way to have both sides mirror each other, I think that might make it smoother to digest. But I know it would take some time to make the G and B work in that way. Even if you just had the union jack + the shield with GB sitting in the middle just on its own I think would be cleaner and still effective. 

 

I’ve always wanted to see something lion related on the GB hats. Have you ever considered that as a direction? Potentially still incorporating the union jack. Just a thought.